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- From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Subject: Re: CDA-Viewer mystery
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.063814.18417@alf.uib.no>
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- Sender: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <00966FFA.CCA263E0.16771@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de> <74309@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:38:14 GMT
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- In article <74309@cup.portal.com>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
-
- >Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann (no Internet address in message body, and Portal
- >doesn't pull it from the header for me) writes:
- >
- >>I have a problem with the MOTIF-1.0A-CDA-VIEWER.
- >>I use that tool to display ps-files. If I log into the consol, everything
- >>works,
- >>but if I use an X-Terminal I can't select the conversion PS, because there is
- >>no PS menu-item.
- >>
- >>Has someone seen this, too?
- >
- >Well, at least you HAVE a console. When I first encountered this problem I
- >had ONLY an X terminal (DEC VT1000) and thus NO way to CDA VIEW PostScript
- >files.
- >
- >The problem is that the PS interpretation is done by "PostScript extensions"
- >in the X _server_, not in the CDA-Viewer _client_ -- and DEC did NOT put the
- >necessary PS interpretation capability into the server code built into the
- >VT1x00 series of X terminals. As far as I know, there is therefore no way to
- >CDA-View a PostScript file on a DEC X terminal, and it also seems unlikely
- >that "generic" X terminals would have the necessary DEC extensions either.
- >(But I know very little about this subject and could be wrong on the subject
- >of "generic" X terminal behavior.)
- >
- >I suggest finding an alternate X-based PostScript interpreter/viewer in
- >which the client side does the conversion-to-X-image; I do not know any
- >such software specifically.
- >
- >Chris Chiesa
- > Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
-
- Try GhostScript + GhostView, it works very well on VMS. We use it here to view
- PS-files on EWS X-terminals (no DPS) all the time. We use GhostScript 2.5.2
- and GhostView 1.4.1. The interface and functionality is much better than that
- found in the CDA Viewer.
-
- -psi (iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no)
-